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Prairie Gates

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8. Exactly right
Tue Dec 3, 2024, 11:26 AM
Dec 3

You can't be the unilateral defender of norms. Like, by definition. A norm is a norm only if it is held to universally, or close to it. If it is held to by only a small number or one group, it ceases to function as a norm at all, and it should not be normative for that reason. Of course, it's chaos and bad to live in a world without norms, as we will no doubt find out (if we haven't been finding out), but that's the current environment. A unilateral norm is no norm at all.

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